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Why do bad things happen to good people? That only happened once and He volunteered.
Mindless Christianity is no Christianity at all. You can't love what you don't know.
If you truly have it, you never lose it; and if you lose it, you never truly had it.
The problem in the church today is not the profession of faith, but it's possession.
The principle rule of interpreting Scripture is that Scripture interprets Scripture.
If you’re not accountable in life that means ultimately that your life doesn’t count.
The failure of modern evangelicalism is the failure to understand the holiness of God.
Natural man’s sin is precisely this: He wants the benefits of God without God Himself.
The fundamental deception of Satan is the lie that obedience can never bring happiness.
Without God upholding the universe from moment to moment, nothing could continue to be.
If the God you believe in is not a sovereign God, then you really don't believe in God.
The only works of righteousness that serve to justify a sinner are the works of Christ.
The human dilemma is this: God is Holy and we are not. God is Righteous and we are not.
We are secure, not because we hold tightly to Jesus, but because He holds tightly to us.
The only thing that we have earned at the hands of perfect justice is perfect punishment.
The question is not, "Why is there only one way to God?" but "Why is there even one way?"
The one place where the Christian can be naked without fear is in the presence of Christ.
The more sanctified a person is the more heavily weighted his prayer time is in adoration.
The Bible's truth does not depend in any way on whether or not a person believes the truth.
Jesus came to seek and to save the lost. He is the Seeker; we are the ones who are running.
Preachers must always fight the temptation to preach anything but Christ and Him crucified.
It is the Holy Spirit who inspired the Bible. It is the Holy Spirit who illumines the Bible.
The great triad of enemies for Christian growth contain the world, the flesh, and the devil.
The only righteousness that meets the requirements of the Law is the righteousness of Christ.
God's grace is so powerful that it has the capacity to overcome our natural resistance to it.
The presumptuous sin of Uzzah was that He assumed his hands were less polluted than the dirt.
We cannot change God. God is unchangeable. If changes are to be made, they must be made in us.
Prayer does change things, all kinds of things. But the most important thing it changes is us.
There is not one piece of cosmic dust that is outside the scope of God's sovereign providence.
To know that God knows everything about me and yet loves me is indeed my ultimate consolation.
God’s sovereign will is not at the whim and mercy of our person and individual responses to it.
Disciples of Christ abide in His Word. Those who abide in His Word know the truth and are free.
We live in what may be the most anti-intellectual period in the history of Western civilization.
If grace is obligated it is no longer grace. The very essence of grace is that it is undeserved.
It is superstitious to equate our feelings and inclinations with the leading of the Holy Spirit.
Prayer is to the Christian what breath is to life, yet no duty of the Christian is so neglected.
In the culture of pluralism...the only thing that cannot be tolerated is a claim to exclusivity.
The supreme form of cursedness is for the Lord to turn His back on you and bring judgment on you.
It is by virtue of the atonement that God can maintain His justice and yet demonstrate His mercy.
As the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom, so the denial of God is the height of foolishness.
Regeneration is a work of the omnipotent power of God, power that nothing can overcome or resist.
I can’t make the Bible come alive for anyone. The Bible is already alive. It makes me come alive.
I believe it to be one of the most important discipleship resources we have produced at Ligonier.
One can have knowledge without having wisdom, but one cannot have wisdom without having knowledge.
We live in a time of crisis in the secular culture and in the church with regard to the beautiful.
To call a Christian a theist is roughly equivalent to calling the space shuttle Atlantis a glider.
The glory of the gospel is this: The one from whom we need to be saved is the one who has saved us.
By definition, the big difference between mercy and justice is that mercy is never ever obligatory.
God's graciousness is not totally removed from any individual during this lifetime. In hell, it is.
Every sin is an act of cosmic treason, a futile attempt to dethrone God in His sovereign authority.